Jeremiah Green, Drummer for Modest Mouse, Dies at 45 - The New York Times

Music|Jeremiah Green, Drummer for Modest Mouse, Dies astatine 45

Jeremiah Green, a drummer who was 1 of the founding members of Modest Mouse, an indie stone set that roseate to mainstream fame successful the aboriginal 2000s, died connected Saturday. He was 45.

His family, which confirmed his decease on Facebook, said the origin was cancer. It was not instantly wide wherever helium had died.

The set said connected Instagram that Mr. Green had “laid down to remainder and simply faded out” days aft Isaac Brock, a bandmate, shared the quality that Mr. Green had cancer and was undergoing treatment.

Mr. Green’s mother, Carol Namatame, said connected Facebook connected Christmas that helium had Stage 4 cancer. She did not specify the benignant of cancer.

Mr. Green was 1 of the founding members of Modest Mouse, a set that formed successful Issaquah, Wash., extracurricular Seattle, successful the 1990s. The band’s deed singles see “Ocean Breathes Salty,” “Dashboard,” and “Float On,” which became a ubiquitous popular anthem and was sampled by the rapper Lupe Fiasco successful his opus “The Show Goes On.”

Modest Mouse, which was known for its textured and wide-ranging sound, from moody and experimental to airy pop, past released an album, “The Golden Casket,” successful 2021. It was the band’s archetypal medium successful six years.

In its review, Pitchfork called the medium a “procession of pinging, clanging, reverberating tactile pleasures, an inventive backdrop for Isaac Brock’s acquainted blend of forced optimism and unforced paranoia.”

In a 2020 interview connected the podcast “Never Meet Your Idols,” Mr. Green said helium lived successful Port Townsend, Wash., successful the Pacific Northwest.

He spoke astir the serendipitous mode helium began drumming arsenic a child, recalling that helium became jealous aft his member received a bass. Mr. Green’s household past got him a drum set.

“We some truly wanted to play music,” Mr. Green said, adding that helium and his member began listening to punk stone astatine an aboriginal age. “I don’t cognize wherefore I picked drums.”

He cited aboriginal percussive influences similar Brendan Canty of the set Fugazi and Bill Ward of Black Sabbath. He said they some shaped his benignant and that helium considered Johnny Marr, the erstwhile guitarist of the Smiths who aboriginal joined Modest Mouse, to beryllium 1 of his philharmonic idols.

On Twitter connected Sunday, Mr. Marr said that Mr. Green was a “friend, bandmate, and the astir originative instrumentalist I ever met.”

A implicit database of Mr. Green’s survivors was not instantly available.